Saturday, April 21, 2012

4/20/2012 BAC Whole Enchilada Day 12

Today we ride to the LBJ State and National Parks to visit the Texas White House.  While he was president, Lyndon Johnson spent 1/3 of his presidency conducting the business of the United States from this modest farm house north of Stonewall, Texas.

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Trivia question: When President Kennedy was assassinated and Lyndon Johnson became president, who became vice president?

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Above, Johnson family cemetery goes back to Lyndon’s grandparents.

Answer to trivia question: nobody. Until the twenty-fifth amendment to the constitution in 1967 no provision existed for filling the Vice Presidency. As a result, the Vice Presidency was left vacant 16 times, sometimes for nearly four years,

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